Editing Ritchie's Archipelago (section)

== Demographics ==
The islands were originally populated by the indigenous [[Great Andamanese]] peoples, in particular the tribal and linguistic grouping known as [[Aka-Bale]]. However, as the populations of the various Andamanese indigenous peoples declined greatly in the decades following the establishment of [[colonialism|colonial]] settlements by the [[British Raj]] (and later, independent [[India]]), the indigenous communities of these islands have vanished. The present population of the islands consists of immigrant [[Demographics of India|Indian]] and a few [[Karen people|Karen (Burmese)]] settlers.
The 2011 census of India reported 9,355 people living on two inhabited islands of Ritchie's Archipelago: [[Havelock Island]] and [[Neill Island]].